Supervisors

I have had a couple of incidents where patients that I have been treating daily for a couple of weeks have not liked the clinical supervisor and have expressed this dislike to me. I found this a very difficult situation to handle as I did not want to tell the supervisor but I also did not want the patient to feel uncomfortable by bringing this supervisor in to see them, especially when there had been some situations where I though the behaviour of the supervisor was not very appropriate and not in the patients best interest. I realise that patients do have to put up with some things they do not like but when they mention this to me I don’t really want to ignore the situation. I also did not feel that I was in a position to be addressing the situation with the supervisor as I didn’t want to get on their bad side. I found that I would try to avoid taking the supervisor to see these patients but sometimes proved difficult. I think these situations will be easier to handle once we are qualified.